The need for failure as a prelude to success seems to keep coming up all around me, not only in conversations with people who have achieved notoriety for their various career or personal feats, but also in publications such as The Harvard Business Review and some of the 2011 commencement speeches I have watched, such […]
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Archbishop Tutu Fellows comprise dynamic young African professionals awarded the fellowship in recognition of their leadership qualities and the role they are currently playing in contributing towards the continent’s development. The Tutu Fellows are practitioners spread across various social, political, economic, environmental and activist sectors throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Over the last six years the Tutu fellows have formed a strong alumnus of leaders communicating across country borders with the aim of realising the potential and power of a truly pan-African continent.
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Opportunities in Cameron’s Nigeria visit?
There was a good reason for British Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Nigeria on July 19 of this year. Many smart people are betting on our new government to kick-start an era of success — marked by economic growth, improved governance and poverty reduction. The opportunities in Nigeria are further highlighted by the large […]
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African youth 2.0
By Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa It’s a scary time to be a leader of a country, especially a country in which youth (“youth” defined by the African Youth Charter as those aged 15 to 35) issues are not adequately being addressed. With the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, some leaders must stay awake […]
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Our blind adherence to the monogamy ideal poses a health risk
By Rachel Nyaradzo Adams Some of you may immediately smirk with a resounding no! The more cynical among us though may have already started on the thought process of acknowledging that non-monogamous behaviour within marriages and “serious” relationships is a reality. But we would rather not interrogate the ideal lest we undo a firm system […]
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African solutions to African problems: Let’s not confuse matters
By Rachel Nyaradzo Adams A few days ago a colleague sent a piece that challenged the slogan: African solutions to African problems. In it she interrogated the validity of the slogan and argued that Africa needed to take a more global view to addressing its problems. A response is necessary because, with all due respect, […]
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African solutions to African problems
By Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa When engaging in African development discourse, I have failed to understand the popular phrase “African solutions to African problems”. It forces me to question what and who is African? Is it all mankind by virtue of humans originating from Africa or someone who can generally be traced to the Negroid race? […]
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The future of the two Sudans
By Aidan Eyakuze It didn’t last very long, did it? In January, Africa celebrated the successful referendum in which the South voted for independence. Four months later, Abyei, a region nestled between the North and South Sudan was violently “seized” by the North, risking war with the South. Between the vote for secession and the […]
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Identity politics: Would you vote for a Zulu?
By Takalani Musekwa A few nights ago I watched, Brigalia Bam, the chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, declare the local government elections “free, fair and credible”. She went on to say that no political party had objected to the results of the elections. This is despite the fact that a number of complaints were […]
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An African Day on Steroids
I love Africa. For Christ’s sake the place made me into the hazardous person that I am! No place on planet earth garners me so little result with so much sweat. No place makes my inner tiger roar more often than is desired, while at the same time leaving me laughing my lungs out. At […]
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Know your Africa, just watch Big Brother
Lusophones (Angolans and Mozambicans) are wild partiers, as can be the Tanzanians. Ugandan men are either lovers or fighters ie they have no problem ruffling up a woman when challenged. Nigerian men are calm and collected while their female counterparts are erratic. Ghanaians bear it “all”. Zambians interject religion into conversations yet are good dancers. […]
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Nigeria’s quiet revolution
By Edith Jibunoh I woke up to horrible news this morning and I’m angry. John has worked for my family for years. I’ve known him since I was a little girl when he used to take me to school every morning. This is an African story. The one big happy extended family that blends employees […]